title: Paediatrics: surgical strategy and quality of life in craniopharyngioma.
abstract: Management of childhood craniopharyngioma remains controversial. Aggressive primary surgery is associated with an increased risk of severe obesity, but hypothalamus-sparing surgery might increase the need for reoperation and/or irradiation. Nevertheless, hypothalamus-sparing strategies decreased occurrence of obesity—a risk factor for impaired quality of life—without increasing recurrence rates in a new study.
authors.forename: Hermann L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity; D011788:Quality of Life; D012307:Risk Factors